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Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper so, you've never made fun of or laughed at anyone? never teased anyone for any reason?

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper but so now you're having to say that one belief doesn't count as much as another belief the whole bombing element, and how widespread it is, is a nonissue. its not relevant to free speech beyond the threats ON free speech.

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper and, relating to that, so, should those who are muslim respect those that believe that, what was the charge earlier, that mohammad was a pedophile?

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper yeah, i mean, in theory, i can believe in something like love just as much as someone else believes in a religion

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper yeah, one of them will effect me emotionally and one won't. whats the difference in 'hurt'? i mean, it'd hurt my self-esteem and i'd feel bad and generally disappointed by life.

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper this isn't something just toward muslims. its that there shouldn't be things you're by law not allowed to make fun of. which isn't to say its 'ok' or in good taste, just that it shouldn't have laws against that speech.

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper the point being missed is gov't shouldn't be legislating common courtesey

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper most laws have some sort of purpose though, to prevent damage to property, to prevent loss of life, etc. theres not a tangible damage here no one has been harmed. "emotionally" isn't harm, and its an immense slippery slope to start down that road. should...

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper thats totally irrelevant to this. if its true, if its not, the point is the freedom should be there to voice the opinion.

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper if someone in a family dies, there's also no law saying you can't make jokes about it As for Islam, that leads to 'drawing the prophet' that leads to ridiculing, which leads to people being hurt and la-di-dah, you get the idea. no more practicing islam. or...

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper Thats just it though. You're trying to impose your morals, when no harm is being done. no injuries, no loss of property. this isn't free speech. should i be able to stop you from saying anything that i might find offensive? who are you to tell me that...

why make it marriage specific?

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper i agree by in large. Generally i try not to offend people's beliefs...for example, i've a catholic friend thats fairly religious and i make it a point to not make god-related jokes around, since i don't want to offend her just cuz i'm making a joke. heres...

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper there is a difference between what may be tasteful and what is allowable. The whole point of freedom of speech is that you can say what you want. Why does it matter if the belief is a religion or not? Theres not a holds barred thing. I mean, you complain...

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper well, to keep focused on the issue here is to not generalise. plenty sure that you'd get some threats from christians if something similar happened, but not to the scale that it has been.

why WOULDN'T you join mensa....i'd love to pay some people to tell me how smart i am. wait, no i wouldn't.

see, thats clearly the same as what was being discussed before with stretching, if you ignore the differences.

mensa is, what, 98 percentile and up? thats 132 and up for an IQ as according to wikipedia's distribution. not impressed here.

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper where in what they ran did it tell people to go out and murder innocent people? i mean, by your logic, i could say you're not allowed to practice islam anymore because that makes some guy angry, so you're inciting violence. the difference is between saying...

Re: Jihad Against Danish Newspaper here's the difference, one is saying things people just don't like, namely the mohammad related things. the other is inciting violence. if you just said suicide bombings were good.... that would be one thing...it would prove the mentality of a sick...